Streams of Living Water

Last time I was up north, I noticed that there had been a very strong wind which had blown down many trees in the forest behind where my parent’s house is. My parents have a wood burning stove, so when I went up the forest to get some wood for them and I saw these huge trees lying on the ground, my eyes lit up because in each tree, there is probably a month’s fuel for the fire. The problem was one of transport – how could I get these huge trees down from the forest into our back garden so I could use the chain saw to cut them up. I realised that it was impossible.
When I read this passage in Colossians 1:9-12, it made me think about the problem of transporting the wood from the forest to the back garden. Read the rest of this entry »